On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Travis Oliphant <tra...@continuum.io> wrote: > What happens, though when you have > > a[:, in1 :, in2]? > [...] > > To "resolve" this ambiguity, the code sends the (3,4) sub-space to the front > of the "dimensions" and returns (3,4,10,8). In retro-spect, the code should > raise an error as I doubt anyone actually relies on this behavior, and then > we could have "done the right" thing for situations like in1 being an integer > which actually makes some sense and should not have been confused with the > "general case"
You're right, the behavior is deterministic but counter-intuitive, and at least warning in the case when dimensions get flipped around would be helpful. Raising an error may break some code, though, so for that we'll have to bump the API. Stéfan _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
